Steptoe and Son (1962)

Name: Steptoe and Son
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell

Comedy

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old Ned", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was remade in the US as Sanford and Son, in Sweden as Albert & Herbert and in the Netherlands as Stiefbeen en zoon. In 1972 a movie adaptation of the series, Steptoe and Son, was released in cinemas, with a second Steptoe and Son Ride Again in 1973.

IMDb rating: 7.8 (3,760 votes)
Seasons: 8
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1962)

7.58 avg 6 episodes 7.4 → 7.9 29 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Offer: Pilot	7.4	107
2	The Bird	7.9	94
3	The Piano	7.9	84
4	The Economist	7.2	75
5	The Diploma	7.2	79
6	The Holiday	7.9	72

Season 2 (1963)

7.79 avg 7 episodes 7.4 → 7.7 30 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Wallah-Wallah Catsmeat	7.4	78
2	The Bath	8.2	81
3	The Stepmother	7.7	72
4	Sixty-Five Today	7.6	75
5	A Musical Evening	7.7	70
6	Full House	8.2	82
7	Is that Your Horse Outside?	7.7	72

Season 3 (1964)

7.71 avg 7 episodes 7.3 → 7.7 25 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Homes Fit for Heroes	7.3	69
2	The Wooden Overcoats	7.5	73
3	The Lead Man Cometh	7.9	77
4	Steptoe a la Cart	7.7	70
5	Sunday for Seven Days	8.1	73
6	The Bonds that Bind Us	7.8	68
7	The Lodger	7.7	69

Season 4 (1965)

7.81 avg 7 episodes 7.8 → 8.0 29 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	And Afterwards at...	7.8	70
2	Crossed Swords	7.8	64
3	Those Magnificent Men and Their Heating Machines	8.1	74
4	The Siege of Steptoe Street	7.9	69
5	A Box in Town	7.6	66
6	My Old Man's a Tory	7.5	66
7	Pilgrim's Progress	8.0	65

Season 5 (1970)

7.77 avg 7 episodes 8.0 → 7.5 29 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Death in the Family	8.0	73
2	A Winter's Tale	7.6	70
3	Any Old Iron?	8.3	88
4	Steptoe and Son - and Son!	7.6	71
5	The Colour Problem	7.7	65
6	T.B. or Not T.B.?	7.7	64
7	Men of Property	7.5	62

Season 6 (1970)

8.07 avg 8 episodes 8.1 → 7.7 30 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Robbery with Violence	8.1	72
2	Come Dancing	8.2	85
3	Two's Company	8.2	68
4	Tea for Two	7.6	67
5	Without Prejudice	8.4	73
6	Pot Black	8.2	77
7	The Three Feathers	8.2	61
8	Cuckoo in the Nest	7.7	74

Season 7 (1972)

8.54 avg 8 episodes 8.6 → 8.0 31 min avg

Bad finale

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Men of Letters	8.6	107
2	A Star Is Born	8.4	106
3	Oh, What a Beautiful Mourning	8.6	102
4	Live Now, P.A.Y.E. Later	8.4	92
5	Loathe Story	8.0	96
6	Divided We Stand	9.2	139
7	The Desperate Hours	9.1	142
8	The Party	8.0	83

Season 8 (1974)

8.10 avg 7 episodes 7.4 → 8.4 31 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Back in Fashion	7.4	82
2	And So to Bed	8.1	87
3	Porn Yesterday	8.3	89
4	The Seven Steptoerai	7.5	84
5	Upstairs, Downstairs, Upstairs, Downstairs	9.1	110
6	Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard	7.9	85
7	A Perfect Christmas	8.4	118